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Lisa Joy

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[Wikipedia] Lisa Joy is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and lawyer. She is best known as the co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of the HBO science-fiction drama series Westworld (2016–2022). For her work on the series, she received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Joy's

Quotes by Lisa Joy

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

Beauty

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I don't see much of myself in the traditional Western hero.

Hero

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I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and…

College

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One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess…

Define

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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

Possible

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Working on 'Westworld' has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV…

Budget

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I've tried to always be incredibly overprepared in everything that I've done.

Always

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We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

Hosts

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One of the many delights that I found in directing was that you plan so many things so meticulously so that they…

Go

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I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

Endure

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The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or…

Bad

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We drive a Tesla.

Drive

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The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with…

Great

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No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.…

Day

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I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

Actually

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And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

AI

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Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled…

Clear

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If you play a game like 'Grand Theft Auto' you don't go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple…

Cry

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The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Bring

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I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

Felt

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In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind…

Looking

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I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

Body

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The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we…

Create

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When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which…

Always

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Another writer might question whether you're feeling competitive. But if I talk to Jonah, I know that he truly values my success…

Generosity

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